This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the vedas to the present. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the. Wendy doniger was born in new york in and trained as a dancer under shiva. Through this magisterial volume which she calls the book of my books wendy doniger, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and most original scholars of hinduism. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Doniger concludes with four concise autobiographical essays in which she reflects on her lifetime of scholarship, hindu criticism of her work, and epub the influence of hinduism on her own philosophy of life. A sourcebook translated from the sanskrit edited, translated and introduced by wendy doniger. The origins of evil in hindu mythology download ebook. Women in hinduism history, religion, hinduism relations, social aspects, women in hinduism. Unlike the usual, arid accounts of dynasties, wendy doniger s double vision of hinduism is about women, merchants, lower castes, animals, spirits and, of course, dead male brahmins. Hindus epub wendy doniger hindus an alternative history. Hindus need to be wary of the intractable opposition between this hindu and that hindu that is falsely posited and perpetrated by orientalists like doniger.
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